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UNITED STATES CHARLES W. TRICK, OF DAYTON, OI-IIO.

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Application filed November 22, 1926. Serial No. 149,871,

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in garbage or waste receptacles.

It. is one of the principal objects of my invention to provide for the reception of garbage and other waste, an inner can or container which is adapted to be readily inserted in and removed from an outer receptacle that is opened and closed by a foot-operated hinged cover.

It is another object of my invention to provide a foot-operated lever which, thr0ugh an upward thrust imparted to a vertical link, will raise the cover in contra-distinction to the more complicated pull-down means commonly employed. Ease and ei'liciency in the operation of the cover, and simple and more economical means for achieving that result, are thus obtained.

Other important and incidental objects will be brought out in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the subjoined claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of my improved waste receptacle. Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the said receptacle, partly in section and showing the lid raised. Figure 3 is a top plan view of the receptacle, with the lid or cover closed. And Figure 4- is a bottom plan View of the same. 7

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a detailed description of my invention, the numeral 1 designates an outer receptacle preferably made of galvanized metal; This receptacle, which is supported by feet 2, is adapted to receive an inner container 3 to the upper portion of which the ends of a bail 4 are attached. By means of this bail the inner container, which is also preferably made of galvanized metal, may be easily lifted from the outer receptacle for the discharge of the garbage or other refuse it contains.

For "the purpose of preventing the escape of. offensive odors from the waste receptacle so that it may be kept in a room such as the kitchen of a residence, I provide for the outer receptacle 1 av hinged cover or lid 5.

' Secured to the rear top portion of the latter is an arm 6, preferably flat, that has downwardly projecting ears 7, 7 at its outer end. These ears are apertured for the projection therethrough of a hinge pin 8. The outer ends of this hinge pin 8 project through holes in the leg portions 9, 9 of a U-shaped bracket 10 secured horizontally to the rear,

upper curved part of the outer receptacle 1.

These means thus pivotally secure the cover 5 to the top portion of the outer receptacle. For the purposeof raisingthe cover 5 by means of the foot when it is desired to insert or remove the inner container. 3, I have provided the following means. Welded or otherwise firmly secured to the arm 6 between" the can 1 and the hinge pin 8, is the bent-, over end 11 of an arm 12 that is formed at its inner end with downwardly projecting cars 13, 13. (See Figures 1 and 2.) These cars 13, 18, which are apertured, receive the top right-angled end 14 of a vertical link or thrust rod 15 which has a lower angle end for pivotal connection to the rear end. of a foot-lever 16. This lever is pivotally secured at its middle portion to a downwardly proj ecting fulcrum piece 17. The latter is bent over at its upper end for attachment to the central portions of two intersecting, diametricbraces 18 that forma frame upon which the inner container 3 rests and from the ends of which the feet 2 project. The outer end of thelever 16 is bent to hook shape around one of these feet, which acts as a guide for it. y

When the downward pressure of a foot is exerted upon the outer end of the lever 16,

its inner end will be elevated to exert an upward pressure upon the link rod 15. The latter in turn elevates the attached arms 12 and 6 to raise the cover 5 from'its position in Figure 1 to a position such as that in Figure 2 to permit the removal of the inner container 3. A spring-wire 19 bent substan-. tially to hair-pin shape is turned at its free ends for connection by screws 20 that attach the right-angled ends of the bracket legs 9, 9 to the outer receptacle. this spring 19 bears against the link or thrust rod 15 as shown in'Figures l and 2 to assist gravity in automatically returning the cover 5 to its closing position after the pressure of the foot has been removed from the outer end of the lever 16.

It is thus seen that I have provided a convenient and sanitary Waste receptacle for placement in a kitchen or other room of a dwelling"house; The receptacle is quite simple in construction, and its cover is raised by the upward thrust of alink rod The loop end of part of, the arm whichis-between the can and its point of attachment to the bracket, and a hair-pin spring secured to the can between the lever and the bracket, the thrust rod passing through said spring for engagement with it for the purpose specified;

2. A Waste receptacle comprising a can, a cover hingedly secured thereto, a lever fulcrunied at the bottom of said can, 2 bracket at the upper portion of the latter an arm pivotally secured to said bracket and fixedly attached to the cover, a thrust rod connected between the inner end of the lever and that part oat the arm which is between the can and its point of attachment to the bracket,

a hair-pin spring through Which the thrust rod passes and common means for connecting the inner ends of said spring and the bracket to the can.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of November, 1926.

CHARLES W. TRICK. 

